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Ungrateful definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNGRA'TEFUL, a.
1. Not grateful; not feeling thankful for favors.
2. Not making returns, or making ill returns for kindness.
3. Making no returns for culture; as an ungrateful soil
4. Unpleasing; unacceptable. Harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not feeling or showing gratitude; "ungrateful heirs"; "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is / To have a thankless child!"- Shakespeare [syn: ungrateful, thankless, unthankful] [ant: grateful, thankful]
2: disagreeable; "I will not perform the ungrateful task of comparing cases of failure"- Abraham Lincoln

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1533 1. showing no gratitude ; making a poor return <an ungrateful child> 2. disagreeable; also thankless • ungratefully adverb • ungratefulness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 not feeling or showing gratitude. 2 not pleasant or acceptable. Derivatives: ungratefully adv. ungratefulness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Ungrateful Un*grate"ful, a. 1. Not grateful; not thankful for favors; making no returns, or making ill return for kindness, attention, etc.; ingrateful. --South. 2. Unpleasing; unacceptable; disagreeable; as, harsh sounds are ungrateful to the ear. -- Un*grate"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*grate"ful*ness, n.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as ungrateful, you are criticizing them for not showing thanks or for being unkind to someone who has helped them or done them a favour. I thought it was rather ungrateful... You ungrateful brat. ? grateful ADJ [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Unthankful, thankless, without gratitude. 2. Unpleasing, offensive, disagreeable, unacceptable, unwelcome, thankless.